Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Hyde Schools
Requesting Parents' Assessment of Hyde School
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---correction...ed's oldest
--- End quote ---
LeMarca is that how you spell it?
Anonymous:
Was it Ed's daughter, or was it Ed's wife, Anne, telling Ed's daughter? Hmmm...
I could have sworn it was spelled LaMarca. (Why did this come up?
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---My other fond rememberance of Henry involves Todd Donahue. Todd sang the dylan song "don't ya' tell henry" at a school performance. I knew at the time he was screwing Henry's wife and that was why he was sing the song, to Marsha.
why would Henry care?
he was after the boyz durring my time there
he would invite groups of adolescent males to the hot tubs and sauna place in Brunzwick and would call me to his office to strike up conversations about male anatomy, mine, and other kids...very strange dude...and I was not on acid. I have plenty of other stories. At the time I thought he was interested in my "Growth" ect. A few years later I realized he wanted some 15y/o boy bootie....I escaped un streached...perhaps others did not fare so well
--- End quote ---
This reminds me of something a former classmate told me. He had gone back for some reason, perhaps reunion but perhaps not, as it wasn't more than a few years after he had graduated, and he greeted Sumner with a hug and was about to kiss Sumner on the cheek, as was his style, when Sumner tried to tongue-kiss him. I said, "Are you sure? Perhaps there was some misinterpretation or other..." He mumbled, "no," and I could see from the expression on his face that, if anything, he had probably understated what transpired. Of course this is heresay, but I tend to believe it...
Anonymous:
What was not addressed is that it happened because kids were being taught to not question the authority of hyde. I work as an educator now and it boggles my mind things I endured (and my poor parents paid for) and that the place is still chugging along. If you are looking for a Boarding school for your child consider these quick thoughts.
It is character AND achievement, not character over achievement. They are both paramount. Hyde uses the term as an excuse to keep unqualified teachers, and avoid the ardor of putting together a curriculum and doing the day to day work of running a school. Math there was a joke, I remember a math class where the teacher (Jon Chesterton) would put on his own hyde seminars instead of teaching algebra, like we didn?t get enough seminar. I remember getting everything right on one of his lame tests and the next class was dedicated to him running a session where the entire class lambasted me for doing well and not ?sharing?. I was a pariah for doing the school work!
HARMONY MATTERS. The phrase is really truth and harmony. And it is difficult to accomplish. Truth over harmony is an excuse for demeaning and insulting behavior. It is how the founder communicates and can?t change. It helps protect them from the customary standards of professionalism. And provides a framework to disguise an archaic system of authority figure centered education. Those who can communicate (truth) and empower (harmony) are the most successful people I know. And this is what you should look for in a school.
Oh and you guyz with the acid trips are wacked?you belonged there.
Fifth
Anonymous:
Okay, Fifth, I've got to respond to a number of your points.
First. Emil has been posting on this forum for some time now under a variety of names, as such is his want, and if you go back and read his output over time, certain elements come out loud and clear. He likes to be funny and has a wonderful sense of humor, which may seem outrageous if you are someone who tends to take things very literally, but he is basically a very solid and decent guy who, on the occassion that merits it, will spout most earnest and heartfelt material that is most assuredly on the saner side of normal.
Second. I appreciate very much your saying "...it happened because kids were being taught to not question the authority of hyde." You COULDN'T question authority! It was not just that it wasn't allowed and to do so would entail punishment, but it went against the grain of what was being taught, it was antithetical to your being any kind of success at all at the place. To question meant that you were somehow retarding your character development.
Third. I really love your spin on the glorification of character over achievement as being nothing more than "an excuse to keep unqualified teachers, and avoid the ardor of putting together a curriculum and doing the day to day work of running a school." I have always felt this, that so much of Hyde's philosophy entailed what was CONVENIENT and FEASIBLE for them to maintain, rather than any true striving for excellence which should, by definition, include academic rigor. I too, experienced ridicule with intonations of accusations of "selfishness" for achieving high marks in the "sciences" (what a joke).
Fourth. I must take some issue with your description of Hyde as "an archaic system of authority figure centered education," although I suspect we are more on the same page than not on this one as well. I guess when I think of an authority figure centered educator, I'm imaging someone more like Socrates (although, if you recall, his students were required to question him and his style was more didactic than dictatorial). In contrast, in my own personal, humble, and I'm-not-an-educator perspective, I do think Hyde is pedagogical in name only, it is more of a personality cult than a bonafide education system. And when the person of that personality is gone, the place will either be reamed out and revamped, or swiftly and effetely fade away.
In my humble opinion...
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version